[Tutor] While Loops: Coin Flip Game

[Dawn Samson]

Greetings,
I'm a Python beginner and working my way through Michael Dawson's Python 
Programming for the Absolute Beginner. I'm stuck in a particular challenge that 
asks me to write a program that "flips a coin 100 times and then tells you the 
number of heads and tails." I've been trying to work on this challenge for a 
while now and can't get it to work (either it has 100 heads or 100 tails). I've 
been reworking this code many times and currently what I have does not do 
anything at all at IDLE. Please take a look at my code below:
import random
# set the coincoin = random.randrange(2)headsCount = 0tailsCount = 0count = 0
# the loopwhile count <= 100:coinif coin == 0:headsCount += 1   
 if coin == 1:tailsCount += 1count += 1
print "The number of heads was", headsprint "The number of tails was", tails
raw_input("\n\nPress the enter key to exit.")
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Re: [Tutor] While Loops: Coin Flip Game

[Stephanie Dawn Samson]

Thanks everyone!
I should be using algorithms for even such programs at my level. The solution 
to reiterate the coin flip every time in the loop works. Thanks a lot!
Dawn
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Re: [Tutor] While Loops: Coin Flip Game :p:

[Stephanie Dawn Samson]

Greetings,
As a thread starter, I thought I should write the rewritten code I got that 
others helped me get to, since this thread is still going on.

# Coin Flips# The program flips a coin 100 times and then# tells you the number 
of heads and tailsimport random
print "\a"print "\tWelcome to 'Coin Flipper!'"print "\nI will flip a coin 100 
times and then tell you"print "the number of heads and tails!\n"
# set the coinheadsCount = 0tailsCount = 0count = 1
while count <= 100:coin = random.randrange(2)if coin == 0:
headsCount += 1else:tailsCount += 1count += 1

print "The number of heads was", headsCountprint "The number of tails was", 
tailsCount
raw_input("\n\nPress the enter key to exit.")
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